Car-coupling attachment.



No. 65%. Patented 0m. I6, I900.

- J. A. SHUPING.

CAB CUUPLING ATTACHMENT.

(Application filed June 12, 1900.)

(No llludal.)

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JACOB A. SI-IUPING, OF MORGANTOWN, NORTH CAROLINA.

CAR-COUPLING ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 659,877, dated October 16, 1900.

Application filed June 12, 1900. Serial No. Z0,06'7. (No model.)

To ctlZ whom it may concern: the walls of said groove and against which Be it known that I, JACOB A. SHUPING, a the spring bears when the knuckle is held in citizen of the United States, residing at Morits closed position by the coupling-pin G. As gantown, in the county of Burke and State soon as the coupling-pinis withdrawn from the of North Carolina, have invented a new and draw-head the spring forces the knuckle to 5 useful Oar-Coupler Attachment, of which the its outward position, so that it is not necesfollowing is a specification. sary for a person to pass between the ends of This invention relates to an attachment for the cars to operate said knuckle by hand, so car-couplers, and the object is to provide a that the coupling of the cars is rendered less to simple attachment which may be applied to dangerous than with the coupling as now conthe car-couplers now in general use for the structed and used. purpose of automatically operating the knuc- My attachment might be applied at small kle when the same is released by the withexpense to any of the couplers of the J annoy drawal of the coupling-pin, thereby obviattype now in use and without materially alter- :5 ing the necessity of a man going between the ing the draw-head. cars to operate the knuckle by hand. I do not limit myself to the fiat spring here The invention consists in the details of conshown, as a coiled or other form might be struction, which will be hereinafter fully deused without departing from the spirit of my scribed,partic ularly pointed out in the claims, invention.

20 and clearly illustrated by the accompanying Having thus fully described my invention, drawings, in whichwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Figure 1 is a perspective View of a draw- Letters Patent of the United States, is head, showing my improved attachment ap- 1. In a car-coupler, the combination with plied thereto, the knuckle or coupling-block the draw-head formed with a groove, and the 25 being shown in its normal position. Fig. 2 knuckle and pivotal bolt thereof, of a spring is a plan view of the same partly in section, attached to said bolt and positioned in said the knuckle being illustrated in its closed pogroove, and a pin extending transversely of sition. said groove and confining said spring therein,

Referring more particularly to the drawsubstantially as described.

30 ings, A designates the draw-head of a coup- 2. In a car-coupler, the combination with ler of the J anney type, recessed to rea draw-head formed with a longitudinallyceive the knuckle or coupling-block B, which extending groove, and the knuckle and pivis pivoted thereto by the bolt 0. Formed in otal bolt thereof, of a leaf-spring positioned the outer wall of the draw-head is a longituin said groove and secured at one end to the 5 dinally-extending groove D, said groove inbolt, substantially as described.

tersecting the transverse opening formed in the draw-head for the bolt 0. Secured at one JAOOL SHUPING' end to the bolt is a spring E, which is posi- Witnesses: tioned in said groove, being confined therein A. M. INGOLD,

4.0 by a pin F, extending transversely through G. M. OOLLETT. 

